Biography

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Truck driver. Corrections officer. Relentless self-educator.

Jerry Moore has spent his life doing hard things. He worked as a professional truck driver and later as a corrections officer, while carrying struggles that few people knew about. For much of his life, he learned to keep moving, carry the load, and help others while keeping his own pain hidden.

As a teenager, Jerry experienced sexual abuse and kept it buried for decades. The silence shaped the way he saw himself and the way he moved through the world. Eventually, he began to recognize the inner struggle he called The Enemy Within—the doubt, fear, and patterns that had followed him for much of his life.

He discovered that the first step toward change was simple, but not easy:

Tell the truth. One step at a time.

A lifetime of poor eating habits and obesity eventually led to diabetes and a series of serious health problems, including poor circulation, foot ulcers, osteomyelitis, MRSA, and bacterial infections. In December 2018, Jerry became a below-knee amputee.

That could have been the end of the story.

Instead, it became part of the beginning.

Jerry began rebuilding his life one step at a time. With the help of a prosthetic leg, he returned to the outdoors he loved—hiking, fishing, and camping. He began working with a clinical psychologist and, at his therapist's encouragement, developed a habit of reading and studying that would change the direction of his life.

What began with a single book became a lifelong pursuit.

Jerry immersed himself in psychology, mythology, philosophy, and the writings of thinkers such as Carl Jung, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peterson, and many others. He did not pursue these subjects as an academic. He approached them as a person trying to understand himself, his experiences, and the world around him.

In July 2022, at the encouragement of his therapist, Jerry began Reassurance Consulting.

He had no experience building a business and no map for where it would lead. What he did have was a growing belief that the things he had learned through his own struggles might be useful to someone else.

Today, Jerry is 60 years old. He continues to write, speak, study, and have conversations with people from all walks of life. He enjoys working with young adults and sharing the lessons that experience, failure, perseverance, and self-education have taught him.

In August 2026, Jerry finally did something he had promised himself he would do for fifteen years. He backpacked into the Adirondack Mountains with his son for five days, carrying a 67-pound pack on one leg.

It wasn't easy.

But it was never supposed to be about proving that something would be easy.

It was about discovering what was possible.

Jerry doesn't present himself as a therapist, and he doesn't claim to have a script for someone else's life. What he offers is something different: lived experience, honest conversation, and the perspective of someone who has had to rebuild more than once.

Through Reassurance Consulting, Jerry offers one-on-one conversations, seminars, writing, and speaking. His goal is to help people look honestly at where they are, recognize possibilities they may not have considered, and find the courage to take their own next step.

He believes Becoming Unstoppable doesn't mean never falling down. It means learning how to get back up.